STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

8365--A

2023-2024 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

December 13, 2023 ___________

Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER, McDONALD, ANGELINO, MAGNARELLI, GUNTHER, GRAY, DeSTEFANO, LUPARDO, PAULIN, LUNSFORD, SEAWRIGHT, THIELE, JONES, BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SIMON, WALSH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing a campaign to promote public awareness of the causes of oral disease and its prevention

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:

1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 207 of the public health law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (s) to read as follows: 3 (s) The importance of good oral health, including but not limited to, 4 the impact of oral disease, causes of oral disease and its prevention, 5 oral health across the lifespan, the total body connection, the value of 6 early detection and the availability of oral health services in the 7 community. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 9 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or 10 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 11 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 12 on or before such effective date.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13641-02-4